Food & agriculture – September 10
Indonesia: Price increases push US soy beyond reach of poor
Meet the urban sharecroppers
The great honey drought
Staff
A teaching garden in our National Mall in Washington D.C.
Recently, going through some old papers, I found the design for that long-lost garden. It never got built because in 1980, Ronald Reagan became President and appointed Earl Butz Secretary of Agriculture and that was the end of that. No money for organic research, and especially no āteaching gardenā for the National Mall. Heaven forbid people learn that thereās an alternative to big chemical ag.
You, Obama and the Secretary of Transition
We need a Secretary of Transition for energy because we haven’t done the decades of planning and change we had to do before the end of cheap energy.
Bottoming out
With the federal bail out of the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even a blind man can see that the economy is tanking at full throttle. … I conclude that peak oil will be pretty much off the radar in the next few years among the public, the media and politicians
Peak Oil & Supplies – September 9
Heinberg: Is peak oil “A Misleading Concept?”
Focus on climate change and ignore peak oil? Not good enough.
Rough seas
Geopolitical disruptions #2: Identifying the feedback loops
Sounding like āPeak Oilā advocate, Toyota warns world faces āSupply Shortages and Resource Exhaustionā
United States & Canada – September 9
New York Times columnist calls for a Green Revolution
The Fate of BC’s Carbon Tax
Tea Leaves (Presidential elections and the price of oil)
E&E Daily’s Berman, Geman preview congressional action on energy (video and transcript)
Geopolitics – September 9
Russia: Folly of the progressive fairytale
How the West is losing the energy cold war
Shut up, Borat – the tinderbox of Kazakhstan oil
Transport – September 9
Big bike race
No need for speed
U.S. highway fund crushed by cutback in driving
PBS Public Bike System Plug ānā Play Swipe ānā Ride
Solutions & sustainability – September 8
Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?
Climate & environment – September 8
Warming oceans make strongest storms stronger: study
Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth
UN says eat less meat to curb global warming
Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’
Mining Oil From WWII shipwrecks
Peak Oil Review – September 8
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– Iraq
– Russia and the West
– Briefs
United Kingdom – September 8
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
